Slept right through 10:00am and missed the breakfast. So we had to buy our own at Starbucks, Prince Shopping Mall New East. (Yay!!)
New East is just like one of those large outlet centres in the US. Once you step outside the shopping area, there are few pedestrians. We went to the Old Karuizawa district for a walk along the conventional shopping areas and things here are not particularly remarkable. The miscellaneous small shops along the way are interesting, though.
Shops close arbitrarily here, giving the entire town a desolate touch.
Ate a mass of roasted something on a bamboo stick; couldn't really figure out what that mass was. I could only convince myself and Jessie that it's probably beef tendon. For all I know, it's slightly more gruesome than liver.
Went to a 居酒屋 for dinner; it serves home-made soba. The food is quite nice actually, except the soba - supposedly its featured gourmet. -_-
When we returned to our room it's not even 8:30pm yet. Nice to have some free time to type all this - Internet access isn't available so there's nothing to distract us.
